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The Canadian Women's Open (French: Omnium féminin du Canada), currently branded as the CPKC Women's Open for sponsorship reasons, is a women's professional golf tournament managed by Golf Canada. It has been Canada 's national championship tournament since its founding in 1973 , and is an official event on the LPGA Tour .
The du Maurier Classic was a women's major championship from 1979 till 2000, and is still a LPGA Tour golf tournament called the Canadian Women's Open, which has been in existence since 1973. This event has always conducted in stroke play competition by the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA). [1]
The club was the host of the first Canadian Open championship in 1904, and has been host to nine other Canadian Opens, at two locations, with the club moving to its current site on an island west of Montreal in 1959. The 1912 Canadian Open at the Rosedale Golf Club was famed American golfer Walter Hagen's first professional competition. [15]
The tournament, now known as the Canadian Women's Open, is still a regular event on the LPGA Tour, but no longer designated as a major. The LPGA elevated the Women's British Open to major status to replace the du Maurier Classic. In 2013, The Evian Championship, held in Évian-les-Bains, France, became the fifth LPGA major.
The 2007 LPGA Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through December 2007. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States–based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). In 2007, prize money on the LPGA Tour was $54.285 million, the highest to date.
Lauren Coughlin won the CPKC Women’s Open on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, pulling away from Haeran Ryu with a two-stroke swing on the par-3 17th. Tied for the lead after Ryu three ...
LeBlanc was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and started playing in golf tournaments at age 9. She was a member of the Canadian National Team for six years and participated in the Canadian Women's Open as an amateur in 2006, 2008 and 2009, notably paired with fellow teenager Michelle Wie in 2008.
The Molson's Canadian Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played only in 1969. [1] It was played at the Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada . Carol Mann won the event by three strokes over Sandra Post and Kathy Whitworth .